skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
disclaimer: I work for Cisco.

I think there are some legitimate concerns. The other competitors aren't known to have the level of corporate espionage as Huawei has shown, the level of direct government influence, and telecom is gaining importance in national security.

Manufacturing equipment in China and producing Telecom equipment and software are different concepts for security. For example, all telecom equipment in the US has to allow "lawful intercept"[1], and part of LI is it cannot be detected whether it is enabled or not. I think if an issue was to escalate to the level of national security, both the US and China would be willing to make use of these features. I'm more willing to believe that China would build in their own form of LI without publicizing it, since the government is more directly involved in the decisions of ZTE/Huawei. If the next front of war is on the internet, this is a considerable risk.

From what I understand - the Chinese government has the ability to say "If you don't drop the suit against [Chinese Company] we will block your product sales in China". I can't find a source, but I remember hearing a similar incident.

This idea is also not new - India is on a similar path to locally source telecom equipment:
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-08-15/news...

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception
19. Data always > theory or opinions. Learn the data by building stuff.

This is not true.

It depends on how much data you can get and how representative it is.

A big mistake is to assume that an unrepresentative sample of data is representative, and to draw conclusions based on that assumption.

If you do not have a representative set of data (and you can't always get one) then data can be less-than "theory or opinions".
This looks pretty excellent. I will be trying this out later.
Emoki: Animal Ears You Control With Your Mind
Thanks!

I felt since I was quoting an essay in a future edition of a quarterly which you'd have to pay to read, it would, indirectly, be to my advantage, and, as such, warranted a disclaimer.
I am not being argumentative when I ask this, I just want more details about this bullet:

> - Questionable class-like implementation.

Can you just lay it all out right here? What is wrong (or suboptimal) with the implementation, what alternatives would you prefer, etc. Everything that is behind that bullet, I want to hear it!
Ah, but if only the world were really so black and white...
One interesting implication of this work (obvious caveats [1]), those who are more likely to suffer from stereotype thread will underperform those who don't. Thus, even if one measures equal ability among applicants, he should prefer those from a group which is stereotypically superior [2].

An interesting question this raises is how much collectivist attitudes play a role in this effect. For example - consider two hypothetical individuals from a stereotypically underperforming group. Individual A is a collectivist and strongly cares about the perception and welfare of his group. Individual B is an individualist and holds no special affection for his group relative to any other.

Will A be more vulnerable to stereotype thread than B? It's reasonable to hypothesize that individual B might care about stereotypes less than A, and therefore might be less affected.

A fairly straightforward way to test this would be to repeat stereotype threat experiments using dimensions on which people are not typically collectivist (e.g., blood type rather than tribal affiliation).

[1] Assuming the effect survives outside the laboratory, wouldn't necessarily apply in a hypothetical world with different stereotypes, etc.

[2] I'm focusing solely on maximizing group performance, ignoring legal risks, moral issues, etc.
What's wrong with using jQuery?
XKCD on 'being monopolist' in today's age
> My favorite example is...

This exact thing caught me out a few weeks ago, it still boggles my mind. I started a pension recently and I was given examples of how much I would be worth if I started as soon as possible (my 21st birthday) or if I waited until I was 22, 23, 24... if my total monthly contributions are $2,000 and I start on my 21st birthday I will be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars more than if I started at 23, or 25, but my brain thinks that is insane and even though I know it's true, I still can't get over it. The difference between 21 and 23 is $160,000!

going even more on a tangent, it's really a great shame this sort of thing isn't taught in schools. It seems obvious now after being taught that savings can vary so much this way with so little time, but until I was explained it I had no idea. I figured waiting until 25 or 30 to start a pension made most sense!
You're begging the question. It absolutely is possible to have well-designed studies that address these topics. It's how we know anything about depression, anxiety, happiness, motivation, etc. etc.
When a designer programs
Ugh. A pox on people who write programs that "anticipate your needs". They get it wrong more often than right, slowing you down, blocking you, or interrupting you and breaking the flow.

And to make matters worse, those features tend to be baked into the system such that you can't disable them.

Impatience is no virtue.
> trivia like the difference between O(2^n) and O(3^n).

ignorance regarding basic complexity differences; this is the problem.
I'm employed in Portugal without a (completed) CS degree, and I had more than one company to choose from. From what I could tell, the interviews were much more important than any lines on my CV.
I can't begin to fathom a motivation for that. Can anyone think of a reason, or is this likely simply a mistake?
> But I hate that I cannot press backspace to go back a page in Firefox

A bit of google'fu would have turned up plenty of these: "Make Backspace Go Back in Firefox for Linux": http://www.explodingpenguin.tv/2011/05/24/make-backspace-go-...

> or even run 2 seperate [sic] instances of Firefox (with multiple tabs)

What do you consider to be "2 separate instances"? Is hitting ctrl+n (or picking File->New Window) not what you mean?
This story is #30 in [1].

[1] http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=193b767bbb3b0eb0d949d592...
This is genius: they give you a credit card so you can buy more AdWords from them!

I've been getting these AdWords vouchers that had 'this is not a credit card' printed on them. In a few years it will actually be a credit card! Just activate it via your account and you are good to go.
Crowdsourcing Pictures of Sports Events?
Do you know of any good crowdsoucing picture sharing sites, e.g. for marathons.

This should be possible? Any ideas how to create this?
The way they're going about it might not be the right way, but having worked at and run car dealerships, $600/year is not out of line (granted this is based on conventional engine vehicles). The first year of the vehicle you probably won't get your money's worth, but after that it becomes much more valuable. At a traditional car dealership, a 15k mile service is pretty basic, oil change and tire rotation, but they will try to upsell you on numerous other items (special additives to improve engine life/gas mileage, air filter change, wipers, etc...) that will easily hit $250-$300 for that visit. These items can all be done in ~10 minutes at home for ~$50. For a 30k mile service, you're looking at well over $400. To be able to take your car in, not have to deal with the hassle of someone trying to hustle/upsell you, get everything on the car done, road side service, and (hopefully) better service than you'd get at a traditional car dealership? Doesn't seem to me like the price is way out of line.

Not only that, but think about the last time you went to a dealership to buy a car, remember when you went in the finance office to sign the paperwork? More than likely the finance manager was trying to sell you a service contract from a 3rd party that was more expensive and covered less items.

In the end though it's hard to judge the value of these things without having the service contract in front of me, knowing you specific driving habits and exactly what services the contract covers and what services it doesn't (if any). Having said that, I would be highly surprised if 12% of Tesla pre-orders get canceled because of the service contract (as mentioned in the article).
Ending up on the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Valdis Krebs at TEDxRiga
jQuery, while hugely popular, is not a standard.
25 Microchips That Shook the World (2009)
SIP[1] kinda solved this but adoption has been patchy-to-none partially due Skype's proprietary system dominating the voice and video call space. sip:user@gmail.com should call your device for voice and/or video.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
What he said. Been doing this for a while.
This commentary of yours was well-answered by AnthonyMouse. I just have to add a point of emphasis, and a chastisement:

The notion that Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of copyright and patent law is just flat-out wrong. He was profoundly suspicious of the notion that government enforced monopolies on ideas and their expressions could have any but the most dangerous, counter productive effects, and has written eloquently of the benefits of the natural tendency of knowledge to spread freely regardless of attempts to restrict it. What he did was not support copyrights and patents -- it was to resign himself to the fact that others developing policy while he was serving overseas as an ambassador made the decision to include copyright and patent law in that policy.

As for the chastisement . . . one did not (and does not) have to be a monarchist to completely wrong about copyright policy. Pretending the argument is that one must be a monarchist, just because someone pointed out its monarchical roots, is to mischaracterize the argument so you can deride it without actually addressing its substance.
I was referring to P=NP there, and the "We" is the "computer science community", which I am a part of (Ex-applied researcher). And if you have an opinion about that, no one really cares unless you're a mathematician/computer science researcher who has positive/dispositive leads towards a conclusion, or a non-research person doing work, that can be used to push the research along one way or another towards an answer

This isn't about standards or opinions.

Is the paper correct showing P=NP is required for markets to be efficient? If yes, then "Markets are Efficient" is only true if P=NP. "Efficient" has a technical definition that's not one of opinion. That's like saying your opinion on whether this chemical solution has fluorine in it. No, it does or it doesn't.

Now: The paper is the only real thing for you to attack in this conversation. It's math.

"I prove that if markets are weak-form efficient, meaning current prices fully reflect all information available in past prices, then P = NP, meaning every computational problem whose solution can be verified in polynomial time can also be solved in polynomial time. "

Here is the definition of weak-form efficient:
"The weak-form EMH claims that prices on traded assets (e.g., stocks, bonds, or property) already reflect all past publicly available information."

Why do I only list Weak-Form? Because the other forms have weak-form as a prerequisite

And what if you want to "reject my opinion of efficiency here"? Then you're saying the free market is crap, because its prices aren't worth a damn because they don't take into account enough information.
Gooload - trouver facilement des fichiers MP3 sur le web
In App centric world, how important is browser anymore ? Now, I use apps for the websites that I used to access regularly everyday.
What the hell does it mean, anyway?
Regenerative braking is not just a "hip, new (phrase)", it has an actual distinct meaning. That meaning is distinct from engine braking. I've driven manual transmissions all of my life, from motorcycles to large trucks, and to me regenerative braking and engine braking aren't even close to the same thing.

As a side note, if your brakes can lock your tires at speed (and I don't know of a modern car that can't), then engine braking in an emergency isn't going to help as the tires are the weak link.
i think email tried this theory already, people still dont memorize everyone's email address. Auto-complete is what we all live by, seriously, this wont last.
> However, the abstract seemed very careful not to make overly broad conclusion.

In general, but when they say "... long-term relation between violent video games and aggression, as well as the specific game characteristics (e.g., violent content, competition, pace of action) that may be responsible for this association", they're moving from evidence to opinion, an opinion not remotely supported by the study.

The only way they could sort out causes and effects in a study like this would be to compel some people to play video games, and compel other people not to. The subjects are pre-teenagers, and that is not going to happen. Such a study is called "prospective", and they are rare in psychology. Even with adults, prospective designs are terribly expensive -- and there have never been a study of that kind on this topic.

> As to you concerns about sampling, they seem to be following best practices for this type of study, random.

But the study has no control. Instead of choosing two groups as identical as possible and applying different stimuli to each, they rank subjects based on their existing behavior, meaning there is no control group as that term is understood.

> Most statistical tests (which I assume were used in the main paper) are designed assuming the groups are random, and will provide valid statistics.

But there aren't two groups selected in advance and randomly assigned a behavior. The study participants are pigenholed based on their observed behavior, the reverse of the strict statistical approach.

On can see this without knowing the details, simply by imagining the opposite -- locking up a bunch of 12-year-olds and compelling them to play, or not play, video games. Obviously that didn't happen.

> As long as both groups you are comparing are selected using the same random ...

There weren't two groups selected in advance and subjected to different conditions, as in a truly scientific study. This study design is called "retrospective" (meaning subjects are chosen after the fact, not before), and is notoriously unreliable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospective_cohort_study

A quote: "Caution needs to be exercised in particular with retrospective cohort studies because errors due to confounding and bias are more common in retrospective studies than in prospective studies."
What Software Development Can Learn From Motown
Interesting article, also led me on a tangent to check out the Coanda effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect
How to Build Great Presentations
So if Google is involved, how does HTML5 Rocks factor into this? Are both expected to co-exist?
There is an ITU standard called ENUM [1] that allows uri->phonenumber mapping to be represented in DNS, where a URI could be something like mailto:name@domain.com. I've never heard of it being used though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping
Knowing most of the power tools mentioned in this book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003302.do would do a better job as a discriminating factor, in my opinion.
Rdio vs. Spotify
You must drive your car hard! Do you ask for the brake pads back after each service? By law they have to provide them to you if you ask, and I suspect you will see a decrease in the number of recommendations if you start asking for them back and measure them to see what their specs are. I can't say for sure, but it would not surprise me if they are being over-eager in making their "recommendations".
MagiXcan: Imagine computers 10X faster. 100X? More
Maybe someone from Facebook made the robots.txt file, ayyy!
The site doesn't even seem close to being useful or complete yet. I think it's intentional.
This probably isn't very useful for evaluating an interview candidate as a whole, but I like how comprehensive it is in terms of technical knowledge. It's a useful roadmap to evaluate your own technical competency too.
German-English-Japanese here :)
I won't post the unpleasant emails - I'd have to go and find them and I'm not inclined to re-read them. You can read some dissenting opinions, and a reasonably civilized discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013666
The XKCD strip is about whether or not it's a good thing to have tech companies with overwhelming amounts of power in certain areas. That's orthogonal to whether or not such behavior is strictly legal.
The were so ashamed that they decided to announce it among other new features in iOS 6 at WWDC this year. No-one pays attention to those silly conferences, especially Apple's.
To be clear: this is a consumer version of StarStar.co http://www.starstar.co/ which has been around for some time.

Like every namespace, it's great if you're early and you get something short and simple, useless or at least annoying/convoluted later on.
Why not just use your email as the "me" part of the service?
I thought they escaped to Antarctica and went into the hollow earth through the polar openings.
utm links are tracking links for Google Analytics. If the link was clicked from inside a mailing list's email (which it most likely was), and they have Analytics setup with their Email Marketing Provider, it'll put that utm junk on the end.
Nothing in general, but the way it is used for this tutorial adds nothing and obscures some of the topics.

Original jQuery code:

var canvasElement = $("<canvas width='" + CANVAS_WIDTH +
"' height='" + CANVAS_HEIGHT + "'></canvas>");
var canvas = canvasElement.get(0).getContext("2d");
canvasElement.appendTo('body');

'Native' code:

var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = CANVAS_WIDTH;
canvas.height = CANVAS_HEIGHT;
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
document.body.appendChild(canvas);

Similar misgivings about the use of a jQuery plugin to read the keyboard later in the article.
I figured powerful businessmen in China had more to lose than money if they refused to let the government do what it wants. The U.S. government compelled AT&T and Verizon to perform illegal spying, in the name of protection from terrorism, it's the same thing for China and Huawei.

The U.S. government could be a threat to China; it's obvious China will do what it takes to counter that threat. Of course China won't sabotage U.S. infrastructure without provocation, but I think the U.S. won't accept that they have the potential.
Hello,
I am Arun Sagar, inventor of magiXcan. I would be happy to answer any questions you have here. I am also responding on indiegogo and our facebook fanpage: http://facebook.com/arosmagic.
They are both displaying google maps, so it is not that surprising that both look similar. But is is a severe blow against the assumption of honesty of the person who created the images.
Someone at one router company told me that at one point, Huawei used to copy their routers down to the English silk screening assembly instructions on the PCB's.
Here is a link to our latest election straw poll, run entirely after the 10/3 debate.

http://goo.gl/7H2KQ

You can compare those to some of the other polls aggregated at Real Clear Politics here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

For those people interested in the accuracy & validity of the GCS platform, this is a great place to start.
You've got some of your facts wrong.

The US didn't steal the designs from the Nazis. They offered the Nazi researchers that were involved with these programs asylum if they'd help us further that research. One such program is Project Paperclip. Later, many of these scientists went on to work at Lockheed and other defense contractors. They had expertise in rocketry, turbines, and airframes that we simply didn't have at the time.

We still see their efforts in current generation aircraft (like the B-2, which I worked on). They were respected. There are memorial photos of them in the halls of places you will never see.

FYI: Those of us that worked on "fun stuff" used to get a kick out of the tin foil crowd. Do not rely on them for any remotely reliable information. Instead, pay attention to Janes and other defense aviation journalists (the DEW Line being one good example).

Edited for clarity,
Full-body, real-time motion tracking achieved using 17 sensors, Unreal Engine
My opinion of Groklaw has really gone down because of their coverage of Apple v Samsung. They have really focused an inordinate amount of attention on the jury, and when your argument starts to look at the people instead of their decision, you're not starting down a good road.
"But pose the same question to small children, or people living in some traditional societies, and they're likely to answer 3."

Citation needed! I mean, if "half" is not understood as mathematically half, how can traditional societies even have an economy?
Put the Newsstand.app icon inside a folder without jailbreak
Personally I'd regard any company where the HR department gets to filter candidates on silly criteria like that as somewhere I'd never want to work.
Which freaking PaaS should I use?
This would be great for any kind of fighting game or training, like in those old VR movies.
Bad Astronomy [1] has a comment saying the Orbcomm satellite is a test unit (not the production unit yet) and that a second-choice orbit is possibly where it will be released.

[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/08/sp...
I feel like this test would be better if it were reasonably timed, and you were allowed to look up the answers. That might be a little bit closer to what I actually do (especially when I don't know what something is). Calling me lucky to get by without knowing offhand the definition of a B-Tree, is kind of rude and also very wrong.
There's some interesting ideas here that (I've heard) are quite similar to how Apple works; small teams, iterate quickly, make multiple attempts at the same thing and have a single person who can easily say no to something.

These guys were basically applying agile concepts to the song recording business and doing a great job.
?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_content=Apple%2C%20Facebook%2C%20Google%2C%20Microsoft%20and%20others%20join%20forces%20to%20launch%20new%20Web%20standards%20resource&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia

They're trying to track referrals from Hacker News.
That's right. Some people get confused due to the rather unfortunate convention of writing f(n) = O(n) instead of the correct f(n) ∈ O(n).
World's Most Powerful Wind Turbine
...With the further exception of Nokia, who was willing to be behind Microsoft but absolutely not behind Mozilla.

However, the full "web steward" page is more egalitarian:

http://webplatform.org/stewards/
> FB isn't in the business of hosting videos so why should a p2p social network be?

Remember that the whole point of using P2P social network was to avoid centralized service and keep control of one data.
It's based on a 30-pin PDMI connector standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI) but modified by Samsung to be used on the Galaxy Tab
It's very rare to see Latin in any modern legal document. And legal documents are hardly arcane. They're verbose and specific, full of terminology, but not purposefully arcane.
The skeuomorphic logo is such a terrible choice or did I accidentally miss all of the web's 4-bar linkages?
Instead of using prototypes and functions shared among all instances of the same type of object, it uses closures for each instance. The coding style is also questionable, with everything referencing a variable named 'I'.

It works, but in my opinion it is absolutely not a correct way to write code. In any case, OOP and class-style programming in Javascript is a large topic.
How to do your MBA for free (almost)